Unispirifer

Unispirifer

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProspirinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 122 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 122 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 119 of 122 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 122 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389–384 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences380–376 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences376–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–363 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 2 occurrences359–355 Mya — about 20 occurrences355–351 Mya — about 22 occurrences351–347 Mya — about 24 occurrences347–343 Mya — about 13 occurrences343–338 Mya — about 11 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 11 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 10 occurrences330–326 Mya — about 3 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 2 occurrences322–317 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358.86 Mya330.3 Mya422 Mya296 Mya

122 occurrences of Unispirifer on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

122 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

31 formations

Banff — 53.08°N, 118.06°WBanff — 52.08°N, 116.43°WBanff — 53.03°N, 118.08°WBanff — 51.42°N, 115.75°WBanff — 51.25°N, 115.47°WBanff — 51.15°N, 115.55°WBanff — 51.08°N, 115.43°WBanff — 51.08°N, 115.17°WBanff — 51.05°N, 115.23°WBanff — 50.91°N, 114.85°WWoolooma — 32.50°S, 151.00°EWoolooma — 30.11°S, 150.28°EWoolooma — 32.15°S, 150.99°EFlagstaff Sandstone — 32.28°S, 151.63°EFlagstaff Sandstone — 32.21°S, 151.57°EBingleburra — 32.43°S, 151.57°EBerrico Creek — 31.98°S, 151.70°EBerrico Creek — 31.93°S, 151.72°ERamp Creek — 39.03°N, 86.50°WRamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.50°WHeshilafu — 38.00°N, 77.00°EBragdon — 40.94°N, 122.27°WTin Mountain — 36.33°N, 116.52°WBragdon and Baird — 40.88°N, 121.66°WHarrodsburg Limestone — 39.33°N, 86.67°WAshkidah — 27.50°N, 13.50°EAshkidah — 27.50°N, 14.30°EDangarfield — 31.08°S, 150.57°EBaird — 40.90°N, 122.27°WBaird — 40.88°N, 122.25°WWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°WGlen Park — 39.58°N, 91.07°WBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WLodgepole — 45.78°N, 108.50°WGriottes — 44.00°N, 4.50°EGriotte — 44.00°N, 4.50°EGancaohu — 41.73°N, 86.15°EArarat — 32.42°S, 151.77°EWiragulla Beds — 32.42°S, 151.77°EHampton — 42.01°N, 92.78°W

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The named rock units Unispirifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Unispirifer and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Unispirifer and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

473 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Unispirifer, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

31 references

Each of the 122 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 19 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Unispirifer

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Unispirifer was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.